Auguste Marmont

Auguste Marmont (20 July 1774-22 March 1852) was one of Napoleon Bonaparte's Marshals.

Biography
Born in Chatillon-sur-Seine, he volunteered for the French revolutionary army and fought at the Siege of Toulon in 1793. He made the acquaintance of Napoleon Bonaparte in the siege and served him at the Battle of Marengo in 1800, and won a victory at the Battle of Ulm in 1805. After the Second Battle of Wagram in July 1809 he was made a Marshal along with Etienne MacDonald and Nicolas Oudinot and he succeeded Jean-Andre Massena as commander of the French troops in the Peninsular War a year later. He was wounded by shrapnel at the Battle of Salamanca in 1811 and retired to France to treat his wounds, and he fought at Lutzen, Bautzen, and Dresden in 1813's European campaign. He defended Paris in 1814, inflicting heavy losses, but he was captured and surrendered to the Bourbon monarchy.

Serving the Bourbon monarchy, Marmont tried to suppress the July Revolution but since he was outmatched, he gave in. He chose to be exiled with Louis XVIII, guilty of forfeiting, and he died as the last Napoleonic marshal alive in Venice in 1852.